For the birds.

Cell phone photos from my Thanksgiving trip to SoCal:

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 DIA

 

 Palm Springs, the Coachella Valley and the Salton Sea

West Coast sunset

Proper Wines shout out!

I did some product photos for some friends' vineyard this summer and they're finally featured on their website!  When I say that I never liked wine until I had their, Proper Wines,  I am being completely honest.  So not only should you check out their website and my photos but you should get a bottle or six.

The Best Camera...

It has been said that The Best Camera is the One That's With You.  That is sooo very true.  A few months ago I purchased the Canon G12 just so I'd be more inclined to have a camera with me wherever I went; and I've hardly carried it.  For that I've kicked myself many a time because I've not been able to capture a moment in time, a grand display of beauty.  I'm going to try and be more motivated to carry a camera.  As Dave Ramsey conveyed at a leadership conference last week, vision without motivation is worthless.


So without further ado, here are 2,000 more words taken on my new Android phone a LG G2X with 8mp camera...

For those of you who have an iPhone check out THIS SITE.

The things weekends are made of...

 Stars puncturing the curtain of night.

 Lazy days (I'm the luckiest).

 God-made sunsets in manmade windows.

 Beautiful works of art 

(Lamborghini Superleggera 1 of only 172 ever made).

 Hot days, hot dogs and 

doing what you love.

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Windows to the World

Downtown Denver Colorado

Canon G12 -- ISO 80 -- f/4.0 -- 1/320 sec

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ColoRADo summer!

This summer has been amazing.  I've spent so much time outdoors this summer, and have gone camping almost every other weekend with my beautiful wife Andrea.  Here's a snapshot of what the past few of weeks have held.

Biking down Pikes Peak (from tree-line @ 12,000 ft):

Leadville Trail 100 MTB Race:

 Andrea and I on the "Powerline"

 1st Place finisher - Todd Wells  6:23:38

 2nd Place finisher - Alban Lakata  6:27:57

 My friend Todd Murray!

 Nothing wrong with double-fisting it

 One of my favorite images from this summer

After a night of camping we hiked Mt. Elbert.  

The tallest peak in Colorado @ 14,433 ft

Day One of the U.S. Pro Cycling Challenge!:

Check out those "stunna" shades!

 Andy Schleck, 2nd place finisher of the 2011 Tour De France

Cadel Evans, 1st place finisher of the 2011 Tour De France

(As you can see he was too fast to get a sharp image)

Video of the day...

Loving the new music by Ben Howard.

His debut album comes out in October. 

I'm hoping it'll be available in the States.

HERE'S the song, Keep Your Head Up

It's a "two-fer"...

1st up, a hilarious idea for an engagement shoot: HERE

2ndly, a band I stumbled across yesterday that has music videos equally as beautiful as their music: HERE

Quote of the day...

"All the technique in the world

doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice."

- Elliott Erwitt

Article of the day...

Does photojournalism steal 
people of their dignity?